Trollskull Manor Deed

Strait out of the Waterdeep: Dragon Heist module! Here is a deed form for Trollskull Manor, which your adventurers should receive from Volo Geddarm. This deed is patterned on traditional English/American deeds, and would be recordable today.

-Accuate metes and bounds property description.

-Signed and sealed by Volo and Waterdeep Magistrate Kylynne Silmerhelve.

-Adventure appropriate consideration.

-The year on the Deed is 1498, based on a recent tweet by Ed Greenwood that the current year is the "late 1490's". Add your own day, week (tenday) and month. Use the alternate no date form to add your own year as well. Click here for a list of month names from the Calendar of Harptos and a list of Dalereckoning year names.

-Space to add your players' names, titles, and places of residence.

-Volo quitclaims in this deed, meaning that you can't sue him for any title defects or other nondisclosed issues with the property, such as any poltergiest infestations.

-updated to give title to your party as joint tenants with rights of survivorship. This means that the last surviving party member will own the Manor outright, and the heirs of that member only will inherit the Manor.

If you are a fan of legal minutia like me, check out my Magistrate class. It was designed before Dragon Heist came out, but fits in well with the storyline.

Can I get it as o normal pdf on 'non old looking' paper?
I already have an old burned style paper I want to print on so I'd just need text, autographs ect. and not the background image.

ROBERT SFebruary 14, 2019 5:36 am UTC

CREATOR

The no date no background version is available.

William WFebruary 03, 2019 6:16 am UTC

My understanding is that this adventure takes place in 1492.

December 16, 2018 12:01 am UTC

I would like a geology report, a termite report, a black mold test. Can the Magistrate handle those for me?

;-)

November 25, 2018 9:43 pm UTC

PURCHASER

It would be handy to know the fonts used so we can try to match them.

ROBERT SNovember 25, 2018 10:03 pm UTC

CREATOR

Pfeffer Mediæval for the most part. The larger words are AnglicanText.

Nimrod YNovember 02, 2018 10:17 am UTC

PURCHASER

This is very nice, but you should add a background-free text version.
I want to print this on a scroll sheet which already contains the color of the page, and this will just print over that. Too much ink, too!

Other than that, I love this :)

ROBERT SNovember 03, 2018 3:46 pm UTC

CREATOR

Uploaded a blank background version.

Marc SOctober 26, 2018 1:16 pm UTC

PURCHASER

Do the rights of survivorship include accidental immolation by one of the undersigned? Asking for a friend.

ROBERT SOctober 26, 2018 3:47 pm UTC

CREATOR

The key issue I see in your question is that the death was "accidental". In the case of a true accident, I see no reason why the joint tenancy cannot continue as normal. If, on the other hand, the death was based on some criminally reckless action, such as dropping a fireball on a group of enemies and allies, then the common law concept of depraved heart murder might enter into the equation. In such a case, you will have to rule as a DM what the law in Waterdeep is. There may be a specific "Slayer Statute" that prevents the immolator from benefiting from his actions. In the absence of such a statute, the Magistrates will have to create a rule for the case. In practice, courts have had different answers for what happens when one joint tenant murders another. They might say that the criminal punishment for the murder should not be added to, and that the killer would retain his right of survivorship. Or they may follow the equitable principle that no one should be able to profit from his...See more wrong. There is an added wrinkle in that there are likely several joint tenants in your party. Most of the case law I looked at deals with two joints tenants. If you decide that the equitable rule must be followed, you can choose to either have the law presume that the killer predeceased the victim, in which case the joint tenancy continues for the other party members as normal. Or you could rule that the joint tenancy is converted into a tenancy in common, whereupon there is to right of survivorship for any of the party members, and the heirs of all party members could inherit their share. This ruling could be accompanied by a constructive trust for the heirs of the killer, so they may inherit his share, though he cannot benefit from it during his lifetime.

Hope that helps. Let me know how it works out in your game.

Ian KOctober 12, 2018 8:35 pm UTC

Based on the fact Dragon Heist takes place on a leap year, it would be 1496

ROBERT SOctober 12, 2018 8:52 pm UTC

CREATOR

Thanks, for the info. Where does it say that it takes place on a leap year? I'd like to double check before I upload a revised version.

Phillip JOctober 22, 2018 8:46 pm UTC

One option to give some flexibility is to leave the year name as an input option which is common in many contracts.

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